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Photoflare 1.6.10 image editor release

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After almost a year of development, the Photoflare 1.6.10 image editor has been released, the developers of which are trying to find the optimal balance between functionality and user-friendliness of the interface. The project was originally founded as an attempt to create an open and multi-platform alternative to the Windows PhotoFiltre application. The project code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The program is aimed at a wide range of users [...]

Vulnerability in RubyGems.org, allowing to replace other people's packages

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-29176) has been identified in the RubyGems.org package repository, which allows, without proper authority, to replace some other people's packages in the repository by initiating a yank of a legitimate package and loading in its place another file with the same name and version number. To successfully exploit the vulnerability, three conditions must be met: The attack can only be carried out on packets […]

The first release of the Weron project developing VPN based on the WebRTC protocol

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The first release of Weron VPN has been published, which allows you to create overlay networks that unite geographically dispersed hosts into one virtual network, the nodes of which interact with each other directly (P2P). The creation of virtual IP networks (layer 3) and Ethernet networks (layer 2) is supported. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Ready-made builds are prepared for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, […]

The sixth version of patches for the Linux kernel with Rust language support

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Miguel Ojeda, author of the Rust-for-Linux project, proposed the release of v6 components for developing device drivers in the Rust language for consideration by Linux kernel developers. This is the seventh edition of the patches, taking into account the first version, published without a version number. Rust support is considered experimental, but has already been included in the linux-next branch and is mature enough to start working on […]

Wine Staging 7.8 Released with Improved Alt+Tab Handling for Unity Games

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The release of the Wine Staging 7.8 project has been published, within the framework of which extended builds of Wine are being formed, including not fully ready or risky patches that are not yet suitable for adoption into the main Wine branch. Compared to Wine, Wine Staging provides 550 additional patches. The new release brings synchronization with the Wine 7.8 codebase. 3 […]

Release of a minimalistic set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.7

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The release of the Toybox 0.8.7 system utilities set has been published, as well as BusyBox designed as a single executable file and optimized for minimal consumption of system resources. The project is being developed by former maintainer BusyBox and distributed under the 0BSD license. The main purpose of Toybox is to enable manufacturers to use a minimalistic set of standard utilities without opening the source code of modified components. According to the capabilities of Toybox, […]

Wine 7.8 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.8 - took place. Since the release of version 7.8, 37 bug reports have been closed and 470 changes have been made. The most important changes: X11 and OSS (Open Sound System) drivers have been moved to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. The sound drivers provide support for WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows), layers for […]

Free Software Developers Conference to be held in Pereslavl-Zalessky

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On May 19-22, 2022, the joint conference “Open Software: from Training to Development” will be held in Pereslavl-Zalessky, its program has been published. The conference combines the traditional events of OSSDEVCONF and OSEDUCONF for the second time due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation in the winter. Representatives of the educational community and free software developers from Russia and other countries will take part in it. The main goal is […]

Release of new stable branch Tor 0.4.7

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The release of the Tor 0.4.7.7 toolkit, used to organize the operation of the anonymous Tor network, has been presented. Tor version 0.4.7.7 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.7 branch, which has been in development for the past ten months. The 0.4.7 branch will be maintained as part of the regular maintenance cycle - updates will be discontinued after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.8.x branch. The main changes in the new […]

China intends to transfer state institutions and state-owned enterprises to Linux and PCs of local manufacturers

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According to Bloomberg, China intends to stop using computers and operating systems of foreign companies in government agencies and state-owned enterprises within two years. It is expected that the initiative will require the replacement of at least 50 million computers of foreign brands, which are ordered to be replaced with equipment from Chinese manufacturers. According to preliminary data, the regulation will not apply to difficult-to-replace components such as processors. […]

deb-get utility published, offering apt-get-like for third-party packages

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Martin Wimpress, co-founder of Ubuntu MATE and a member of the MATE Core Team, has published the deb-get utility, which offers apt-get-like functionality for working with deb packages distributed through third-party repositories or available for direct download from sites projects. Deb-get provides typical package management commands such as update, upgrade, show, install, remove and search, but […]

Release of the GCC 12 compiler suite

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After a year of development, the free compiler suite GCC 12.1 has been released, the first significant release in the new GCC 12.x branch. In accordance with the new release numbering scheme, version 12.0 was used in the development process, and shortly before the release of GCC 12.1, the GCC 13.0 branch had already branched off, on the basis of which the next major release, GCC 13.1, would be formed. On May 23, the project […]

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